Google Shutting Out Tool Developers with API Removal

What’s the big deal? The new API doesn’t easily allow third-party tool developers to utilize Google search results. So why in the world would Google take such a backward step? One reason, the new API allows them to better control how developers use Google’s search results.

Existing users of the API will still be supported.

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In response to Google’s discontinuation of their SOAP API, some of our developers at work coded up a solution: a SOAP gateway that allows applications that use the API to continue working. It works by translating SOAP calls into requests to Google’s web interface, scraping the results, then packaging the data back into SOAP. We’ve released all the code at http://evilapi.com under an MIT license.